HIV
How cool is it to see a real picture of HIV? Here you can find a detailed picture displaying human immunodeficiency virus in it’s closest forms. - Ivan Konstantinov and his team created this detailed model of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) by spending 3 months summarizing 100 different publications in fields of virology, X-ray analysis and NMR spectroscopy. “The depicted spatial configurations of 17 different viral and cellular proteins found in the HIV particle are in strict accordance with known 3D structures. The viral membrane in the model includes 160,000 lipid molecules of 8 different types in the proportion found in the HIV particle.” HIV is certainly one of the scariest disease around, but this model makes it look like a fluffy, harmless ball.
